GRAPHIC WORK

Carolyn Carlson has been painting since the 70s, and her dance has always been intimately linked to the visual arts, both in terms of inspiration and space. In the face of ephemeral gesture, the need to leave movement on paper remains. 

Through poetry and line, the invisible becomes visible, in counterpoint to the ephemeral gesture of dance, which the artist defines as the art of an instant in time and space. These practices are inseparable from her choreographic creation.

In June 2017, the La piscine museum in Roubaix inaugurated a year-long cycle of three exhibitions in France presenting the choreographer's graphic work to the public for the first time. The catalog Writings on waterco-authored with Hélène de Talhouët and published by Actes Sud, accompanied the exhibition. In a venue-specific format, the exhibition was presented at the Toulouse Lautrec Museum in Albi in spring 2018, at the Galerie du Jour/agnès b. in Paris in June 2018, at the Chapelle du Méjan in Arles from November 2019 to February 2020, at the Galerie Isabelle Gounod in November and December 2020, then at the Drawing Now Alternative Salon in June 2021.

For summer 2019, a new form of exhibition has been created: La Malle expo "The Painted Gesture.

In addition, 10 autograph drawings by Carolyn Carlson, produced between 1985 and 2016, are now part of the collection of the CNAP, Centre National des Arts Plastiques.

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